Wearing gas masks against the smoke, Italian firefighters and investigators boarded the charred Norman Atlantic ferry on Friday and retrieved a data recorder they hope will help them discover what caused a deadly blaze.

Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah was temporarily fitted with a breathing tube on Friday during treatment for a lung infection, but the condition of the 90-year-old monarch later stabilized, state media reported.

An American has been missing in rugged wilderness of central Mexico for four days after going on a hike wearing only a T-shirt and shorts and with little food and water, according to his wife and a Mexican official.